• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

A day in the life of: www.hva-factory.com

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Back now! Didn't ride as well as I would have liked - but it was great fun****************************************

Catching up with work today,

Andy
 
If you finished you did well. Any ride where we finished if I put the bike on the trailer and we're both in one piece it's a good ride. In competition it's harder I realize thet. Your racking up memories.
 
Back from a frantic weekend at Farleigh Castle 2017 Vets MX des Nations.

HVA-Factory teamed up as usual with Kris Rosenberger (who won his class!! Whoopeee...) to create the 'Husqvarna International' Team.

Superstars of the team, Mike Brown and Jeff Emig came over to try their luck. Jamie Dobb was replaced at the 11th hour with Mervyn Anstie (father to Max) and also, Husky race team manager - Robert Jonas was also replaced by the very likeable Ross Sturmey. Mike Brown pretty much cleaned up with 3 wins on Kris Rosenbergers 83 - 510 Husky Fourstroke, but a motor failure spoilt his clean sweep in one race whilst leading****************************************!!

Jeff, riding with the number 13, qualified 2nd but had a disasterous weekend having 2 x ignition failures. It must have been the number 13 that did it as we took the brand new ignition from my 89 - 510 and put it on Jeff's bike for Mike to ride in the last race and it worked just fine! We did also swap Mikes number 15 onto that bike to cure the curse...!

Mervyn (who I had not met before) dug deep and rode well to 10th overall on one of my new 450 L/Cs as did Ross - who was always going to be the anchor man, not having ridden since last years race! Everyone gave their all and we all had a wonderful time, but you can't win a team race with DNF's, so we congratulate the English, Belgian and Luxembourg teams on their successes.

Thanks also must go to Dave King and his team for creating such an epic race and also to Husqvarna Motorcycles for their continued support.

Andy.IMG_2579.jpg
 
What's the story on number #28 husky is she a 430? The Suzis and the yammie looks good too.

Always wanted a Suzuki to play with.
 
I have been invited to ride the Australian 4 Day Enduro next April ****************************************

Why is it I seem to spend half my life waiting for things to happen and then, when they get here are over in the blink of an eye….

Not looking forward to the long flight, but very much looking forward to meeting some more Auzzie friends and the ride - Twinshock of course!!!

Andy.
 
I have been invited to ride the Australian 4 Day Enduro next April

Why is it I seem to spend half my life waiting for things to happen and then, when they get here are over in the blink of an eye….

Not looking forward to the long flight, but very much looking forward to meeting some more Auzzie friends and the ride - Twinshock of course!!!

Andy.

Andy, Queens English please..... it's "Aussie...."

Im hoping to run my '84 TE510 in the A4DE next year.....
 
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